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Left cervical arch and associated abnormalities

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Cervical aortic arch is a rare congenital anomaly. Occasionally it is associated with other cardiac and aortic abnormalities. This paper describes the association of a left cervical aortic arch with a fusiform aneurysm of the arch in one patient and with multiple coarctations in another.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, 695011, Trivandrum, India

    Sunil Kumar M.D., K. Ravi Mandalam, Madhavan Unni, Sumit Roy, A. K. Gupta & V. R. K. Rao

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Kumar, S., Mandalam, K.R., Unni, M. et al. Left cervical arch and associated abnormalities. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 12, 88–91 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02577395

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